By sharing the risks themselves, colleges may be able to restore their faltering insurance position. (Editor)

Third in a series of three articles on state tax support of higher education. Discusses 22 states with medium level gains of state tax support for higher education from 1960-70 (First article deals with 14 states with slowest gains; the second with 14 states with the most rapid gains). (Editor)

Recounts the short history of the independent black film industry and the reasons for its failure. (RJ)

Discusses how chemistry departments at three campuses of the University of California (Berkeley, Davis, and Irvine) and at the University of Michigan have fared during the years of lean budgets. Indicates that these universities are helped by healthy research funding, academic strengths, service roles, and selective budget cuts. (JN)

Attempts to cut government costs have unfairly focused on social security, disregarding its importance to older Americans. The program also has been perceived erroneously as being on the verge of bankruptcy. Both Congress and the nation, however, must seek solutions to the cash-flow difficulties of the system. (Author/AOS)

The author responds to W. Morse, F. Wood, and R. Peterson's articles (EC 151 382-385) updating W. Rhodes' predictions about care for emotionally disturbed and other disabled individuals. She cites the financial problems facing human services fields at institutions of higher education and decries the impact on future service provision. (CL)

Looks at the impact of budgetary problems on the University of Michigan, indicating potential cuts in natural resources (33 percent), art (25 percent), and education (40 percent). Science/engineering departments, however, will benefit from reallocation of funds, since improvements in research equipment has been given a high priority. (JN)

Discusses the effects of patronage politics on Chicago schools. Cites overtime abuse, poor job and program cost control, favoritism in contractual building maintenance, and capital building programs as some of the costs that political patronage imposes. (GC)

Found that the proportion of persons who indicated experiences of anomia related significantly to the associated proportions of persons who perceived adverse changes in financial conditions. Data suggest changes in economic conditions play an important role in societal integration, solidarity, and morale and their behavioral correlates. (Author)

Describes Nigeria's efforts to develop a program of free education and emphasizes the problems encountered in this endeavor. (FL)

The Waycross (Georgia) school system retired its debt and reduced its tax rates, without reducing educational quality, by budgeting for an operating reserve, carefully reviewing programs, reducing its fiscal responsibilities for special programs, and tightening its budget management techniques. (RW)

Reported is an analysis to determine the real costs of undergraduate student projects and to highlight areas in which economies could be made or efficiency improved. (PB)

Outlines a number of categories for a school district to review when designing an effective plan for program reductions in the face of budgetary cutbacks. (FL)